Gandhinagar: Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced the list of candidates for five-seat assembly by-polls in Gujarat, polling for which is going to take place alongside the Lok Sabha polls on 7th of May this year. Party has fielded Dr. CJ Chavda for Vijapur seat. Arjun Modhwadia will be the party candidate for Porbandar seat. Arvind Ladani is fielded on Manavdar seat. Chirag Patel will contest Khambhat seat. Dharmendrasinh Vaghela will contest Vaghodia seat. All these persons w...Read More

Gandhinagar: Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DAIICT) will now be known as Dhirubhai Ambani University, as a bill proposing the name change was unanimously passed in the Gujarat Assembly on Thursday. The bill aims to broaden the university's scope to include education, training, and research in various subjects beyond information and communication technology. Praful Pansheriya, Minister of State for Education, presented the Bill, receiving support from a...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government on Thursday moved and passed The Gujarat Co-Operative Societies (Amendment) Bill, 2024 in the State assembly. The bill was passed unopposed. It amends the Gujarat Co-Operative Societies Act, of 1961. The bill has a provision to fix a ceiling on transfer fees charged by societies for sell of the plot/property. There's no clarity on the amount of transfer fee in the bill. The rules about this will be notified later. The bill also provisions a requirement of 8 pe...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences (Amendment) Bill 2024, aimed at merging the university with the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre (IKDRC) at Civil Hospital, Medicity, was passed in the state assembly on Wednesday. According to the bill, the governor, following the model of other universities, will serve as the chancellor and head of convocation at GUTS (Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences). Additionally, to enhance the seamless managem...Read More

Gandhinagar: 10 Congress MLAs were suspended from the Gujarat Assembly for a day after they created ruckus and chanted slogans over the issue of a fake government office that functioned for a significant time in Chhota Udepur district last year before it was raided and shut. The fake office of State government's irrigation department siphoned off crores of Rupees of government fund. DeshGujaratRead More

Gandhinagar: The sittings of the ongoing Gujarat Assembly budget session on February 22nd and 23rd are going to be canceled. The decision to cancel sittings on February 22nd and 23rd is taken in view of the scheduled Gujarat visit of Prime Minister Narendrabhai Modi. The Legislative Assembly typically convenes twice a day. Therefore, considering the canceled meetings on February 22-23, two meetings will be rescheduled for February 27 and 28, with an additional two meetings on February 15 and ...Read More

Gandhinagar: A total of 1,606 government-operated primary schools in Gujarat are currently operating with only one teacher, as disclosed by the state government during the ongoing budget session in response to a question posed in the legislative assembly. Education Minister Kuber Dindor provided this information and assured that vacant positions in these schools would be promptly filled. However, the opposition MLAs demanded that the government provide a time frame for filling up the vacancie...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government aims to expedite the filling of class-3 posts to bolster the administrative system. Accordingly, recruitment will be announced for a total of 8,000 posts across various cadres in the year 2024,  said Minister Shri Rishikesh Patel. The minister gave this reply in the state assembly in response to a question about the recruitment process for various cadres posed by the Gujarat Secondary Service Selection Board. The Gujarat Secondary Service Selection Board h...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Congress party has designated Dr. Kirit Patel, MLA from Patan, as the party's whip in the Gujarat Assembly. The All India Congress Committee (AICC) conveyed this decision to Amit Chavda, the leader of the Congress Legislative Party, in a letter on Tuesday. The appointment of Patel, a two-term MLA, comes after the resignation of the previous whip, former Vijapur MLA C J Chavda, who resigned from the state assembly last month. Following that resignation, the Congress is now lef...Read More